Great looking miniatures. Am I right in thinking you have used the Army Painter quick shade products on these? If so, you have managed a much better result than I have seen on many 28mm figures.
No Army Painter on them! just hours of practice, patience, experimentations and thousands figures painted since the 90'
per example on the Hypaspists pikemen:
black primer spray undercoat, once dried (hair drayer is your friend
),heavy zenithal of WRAITHBONE spray once dried (hair drayer is your friend
),
1- a layer of skeleton bone contrast paint on all the figure
2-all the black parts painted in... black (hairs, spearpoints, etc...)
3-contrast paints colours, begin with the lighter shades, then the darkest colours. the use of a chromatic circle can help.
4-highlights with regular acrylic paints(Vallejo, Coat of Arms, GW) here and there on the contrast paints , just to add "contrast and neat finish".
5-satin acrylic varnish spray
6-12 hours later, basing with pumice tainted with yellow kaki 976 vallejo
before the release of the contrast paints, I still use inks (spectralite inks, Golden inks, Liquitex inks)thinned with high flow medium on white primed bases and wraithbone bases depending on the result I search, there's some tutorials and step by step on my blog if you want to have a look.
Kind regards.
PUNCH
PS: thanks a lot to all the painters who shared patiently their knowledge,hints, tips and ideas with me since my beginning in the hobby.
